It's All Art
Meet Jonathan Franklin
Patch art critic Ken Reif introduces you to another local artist with an international background.
This week, I've turned the column over to Jonathan Franklin. My name is Jonathan Franklin. I was born in Michigan but spent most of my youth growing up in Asia (Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indonesia) where my father worked as a civil engineer. As a child I would copy my brother’s drawings, mainly battleships with guns blazing, dogfighting airplanes, Cowboys and Indians, and imaginary monsters. But soon as he began to read MAD magazine my tastes evolved as well. Shortly thereafter I was attempting to emulate the stylings of many of the artistic geniuses that were featured in that august journal. And that more or less became my art education. When I finished high school in Jakarta (Indonesia) we were living down the street from a very respected …
Aviva Weisgal
2:20 am on Sunday, June 3, 2012
I love the way you write about your work. So many artists are only appreciated after the fact and after they are gone. I hope you will not be another example and statistic of the shameful behavior of society, and will soon be able to live from your art and as an artist. more ›